Six Pakistani militants arrested last month, including an ex-army major, were “brainwashed” by radical clerics near the Afghan border and had been plotting suicide attacks against military targets, an intelligence chief said.

Benazir Bhutto supporters ransacked banks and burned train stations in furious rampages across Pakistan today.

Pakistan’s election campaign intensified today with the two top political leaders travelling across the country to attack President Pervez Musharraf’s rule.

A Pakistan International Airlines passenger plane crashed soon after take-off on a domestic flight Monday in eastern Pakistan, and many of the 45 people on board were feared dead.

Armed men stormed into the home of a man from a rival family in eastern Pakistan early today and opened fire, killing the man and his wife, mother and four of his children, police said.

Armed assailants opened fire on a mosque belonging to a small Muslim sect in eastern Pakistan this morning, killing at least eight people and wounding 19 others.

A speeding bus rammed a crowded auto rickshaw on a road in eastern Pakistan today, killing all 10 people in the rickshaw, police said.

More than 150 people have died in a 10-day heat wave across Pakistan, officials said today.

At least 129 people have died in recent sweltering temperatures in Pakistan, many of them in eastern Punjab province, the health ministry said today.

A passenger train derailed in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province today, killing five people and injuring 25 others, police said.

Police fired tear gas and shots in the air to disperse angry Sunni Muslims today after thousands of mourners joined the funeral of a prominent pro-Taliban cleric gunned down on a busy Karachi street.

Two men have been arrested in connection with an assassination attempt against Pakistan’s prime minister designate last month that left nine people dead, officials said today.

Pakistan has captured two high-ranking al-Qaida terrorists, including one with a multi-million dollar US bounty on his head, in a sweep that has netted a number of other terror suspects, officials said today.

PAKISTAN has arrested Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian al-Qaida suspect wanted by the United States in the dual 1998 bombings at US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the interior minister said last night.

Dozens of suspected members of outlawed Islamic militant groups have been arrested following the bomb attack on a bus in Pakistan.

A bomb ripped through a Shi’ite Muslim mosque deep in the interior of Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province, killing 12 worshippers, all of them women, and wounding several others, hospital officials said today.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair is flying to Islamabad today to press Pakistan’s government to condemn terrorism completely as a step towards defusing a dangerous show down with India.

A powerful time bomb ripped through a school van in the eastern Punjab province in Pakistan today, killing at least seven people, including two children, and wounding several others, police said.